Yo, Ward, :)
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:16, Jason Tiller <jason at sonos.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Ward Poelmans wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:04, Jason Tiller <jason at sonos.org> wrote:
>>>> <Fn+F1>: Panel/External Display switch
>>>> No action at all. 'xev' shows me this when I use it to monitor my
>>>> keyboard:
>>> The key for Panel/External display just works automatically here.
>> What should I expect? Should I configure the Kubuntu display
>> settings (System Settings->Displays) to enable both of them?
> I think somewhere an xrandr --auto is executed when pressing the keys.
> So you should see you other display jump on.
OK, I haven't looked at this yet, but I'll check it out.
>>>> <Fn+F2>: Wireless switch
>>>> Correctly turns off the wireless radio, but when I turn it back on,
>>>> I can never reconnect to my access point.
>>> If the wireless key doesn't work, check your dmesg output.
>> Not much luck there. NetworkManager doesn't write much to the
>> system log (although daemon.log is helpful). It doesn't make a lot
>> of sense to me. My only solution so far has been to reload the
>> iwl{agn,core} modules and then do it all by hand (iwconfig wlan0
>> essid..., etc.). After a reboot, NetworkManager is up fine.
> Here, i see output from the iwl* modules. It's not networkmanager
> that takes care of the switch, it's the module itself.
Actually, I don't think this issue is related to keymapping, but more
to Ubuntu having a hard time bringing the network hardware down and
then up again in the same session. A lot of people have created
LaunchPad issues for this kind of issue.
>> You didn't mention the orange "Eject" key (where F13 would be).
>> Does that work for you, too?
> That works also out of the box.
Actually, it works for me, too, I just didn't know it! By default,
Kubuntu has no system action to eject the CD (at least *I* couldn't*
find one). However, once I created a launcher to run 'eject' and
mapped it to the orange eject key, it worked perfectly. Too easy!
Thanks, I appreciate your help! This is great - pretty much
everything up to snuff! Woo-hoo!
---Jason